Who is Hot

[edmondweather]

will this heat wave ever end looks like 100+ until september at this rate.

[RadicalModerate]

Looking for the "silver lining [in the imaginary dark clouds]" at least the "heat" gives us an excuse not to get out in it and, instead, stay cool while posting in here . . .

I suppose that in The Larger Picture, it could be worse (to borrow a Minnesota/Dakota expression): We could be in the middle of another one of those freakish Mid-American ice storm/blizzard deals . . .

One quick suggestion? (in anticipation of the forecast):
Quit wasting potable water on your pet lawn.
Don't wait for the government to tell you not to do it.

[Bostonfan]

who knows? In 2 weeks it could be flooding. Highly doubtful, but always possible. On a side note, have Accuweather on my iphone. I know it's not real realible, but it has temps in the 80's with rain next saturday as well as late the following week. What do they use to come up with this?

[venture]

who knows? In 2 weeks it could be flooding. Highly doubtful, but always possible. On a side note, have Accuweather on my iphone. I know it's not real realible, but it has temps in the 80's with rain next saturday as well as late the following week. What do they use to come up with this?

Not sure where they are getting it, but anything that far out of course doesn't really hold much water. Long range GFS has us 100+ through August 6th. Though there may be chance for isolated storms the next few days (including today) and getting into August. So that would get us to around 45 days of 100+...and I have a feeling we'll get at least 5 more days after that to tie the record.

[earlywinegareth]

Don't talk about it, don't think about it, you won't notice it.

[Pete]

This is starting to approach the Heat Wave of 1980 where it was over 100 for 42 straight days and a total of 69 that summer.

I was a lifeguard in OKC then and remember the pool was so warm, it didn't even feel good to get in.


It's the one thing about Oklahoma I miss the least. Hate to be a gloating Californian but the high at my house today probably won't reach 80.

[venture]

This is starting to approach the Heat Wave of 1980 where it was over 100 for 42 straight days and a total of 69 that summer.

Here is a good graphic to use to compare how we are shaping up against 1980. Not quite the extreme you mentioned, but I think you might have been looking at Wichita Falls which did have 42 straight days and 79 days over 100. :-)

[skyrick]

This is starting to approach the Heat Wave of 1980 where it was over 100 for 42 straight days and a total of 69 that summer.

Those are the stats for Dallas of that year. I live in the DFW area and Pete, Steve and Colleen (Channel 8 weather crew) remind us of those stats 2 or 3 times a day. According to this site http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/?n=climate-okc-heatwave the figures are 22 straight and 50 total for OKC in 1980.


But hey, if you think you can tell the difference between 99 and 109, you're fooling yourself. Hot is hot. Come on October!

[ou48A]

But hey, if you think you can tell the difference between 99 and 109, you're fooling yourself.

If you work outside preforming hard labor day after day and all day as I did in the summer of 1980 I guarantee we could all feel the difference between 99 and 109. At the time we even talked about it.
I worked a summer NG pipeline maintenance job. Try putting on hot pipe dope in that type of weather.

[Bill Robertson]

But hey, if you think you can tell the difference between 99 and 109, you're fooling yourself.

I agree also. Today is 104 at the moment. The next 95 degree day will feel cool.

I also worked outside in 1980. I was an electrician and was wiring handful of houses in Oak Tree. Of all the years I worked outside that one sticks. You can definitely tell the difference between 90 something and 100 something.

As a side note with my apologies to PennyQuilts. If we're going to be this hot and have to put up with the heat we might as well set new records. You'll have to find a new guilt factor to hold over your kids.

[PennyQuilts]

As a side note with my apologies to PennyQuilts. If we're going to be this hot and have to put up with the heat we might as well set new records. You'll have to find a new guilt factor to hold over your kids.

I may have to get sick or something and whine because they never come see me and I am probably going to end up in a home and not remember them and if they cared anything about their mother they would call, damn it.

[PennyQuilts]

This is starting to approach the Heat Wave of 1980 where it was over 100 for 42 straight days and a total of 69 that summer.

I was a lifeguard in OKC then and remember the pool was so warm, it didn't even feel good to get in.

I was pregnant and gave birth in August 1980. I win. =) My daughter has heard about this more often that she cares to. If the records fall, I am going to be soooo aggravated that I lost what little guilt thing I have going.

[RadicalModerate]

I was helping frame some condos over in MWC . . .
That was One HOT SOB . . . Even fer a young guy.

But I hear it was worse back in '36.
And they didn't have air-conditioning.

(My wife is in San Diego: Temp: A Balmy Less-Than-Eighty.)

Oops! Almost forgot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdoYX...eature=related

It isn't too often that the clip, above, can be segued into a conversation.
Or vice-versa.

[Pete]

If it was that hot in DFW, OKC was within a few degrees, I assure you.

The bottom line is that is was right at 100 degrees virtually all summer and this one looks to be very similar.

[skyrick]

If it was that hot in DFW, OKC was within a few degrees, I assure you.

I know, I was living in OKC then. In fact I had a stroke on August 13th of that year; a blood clot in the brain, not a heat stroke. It was 105 that day as I rode my 10 speed home from work. When it hit me I fell off of my bike at the intersection of SW 29th and S. Meridian.

A belated thanks, 31 years later, to Dr Renee Willis at University Hospital, then on NE 13th.

[earlywinegareth]

My personal high is 112 in Dallas (summer of '98). Bad, bad, bad! It was 102 the next day and you really could tell the difference. My personal high in OKC was from a week or so ago...109 I think?

The wind & humidity make a huge difference when it's that hot. We've had some horrible stagnant days, but if there's a breeze, it's bearable.

[Larry OKC]

who knows? In 2 weeks it could be flooding. Highly doubtful, but always possible. On a side note, have Accuweather on my iphone. I know it's not real realible, but it has temps in the 80's with rain next saturday as well as late the following week. What do they use to come up with this?

Oxymoron??? LOL

My personal high is 112 in Dallas (summer of '98). Bad, bad, bad! It was 102 the next day and you really could tell the difference. My personal high in OKC was from a week or so ago...109 I think?

The wind & humidity make a huge difference when it's that hot. We've had some horrible stagnant days, but if there's a breeze, it's bearable.

My mother was telling me it is cooler in Las Vegas than here (and it is a dry heat)

[USG'60]

In the summer of '53 our backyard thermometer down in Mangum showed 120 and it WAS in the shade. Mom made us come in when we told her about it. What a party pooper.

[rcjunkie]

I try to not think about the temp. here in OKC, but my oldest daughter lives in Lacey Washington and she sends me a text at least 2 times a day. The last text was about 30 minutes ago, all it said was 68 and cloudy.

[BBatesokc]

Anyone have a Farmer's Almanac that can see what was predicted for this summer?

We had our AC go out last Saturday night. Ended up calling Hinton Refrigeration. Worst decision I've made in a long time. Took them three trips and two days to do what should have been done in one 45 minute service call and in the end they charged $484 for a new fan motor (part cost locally was only $112).

[Celebrator]

It's really not the heat that's so bad, I just wish we would get a good thunderstorm at least once a week to go along with the high temps.

[skyrick]

It's really not the heat that's so bad, I just wish we would get a good thunderstorm at least once a week to go along with the high temps.

I get so tired of our weatherpersons on TV explain that all of this hot weather is due to the high pressure cap that's settled over the southern plains. Come on McFarland Signature!

[bandnerd]

I keep having dreams that I check the 10-day and there is a break...like, 58 for a high kind of break lol.

A girl can dream...

[jn1780]

I'm sure the utility crews will be glad when they don't have to run around fixing these broken water lines. They were down the my street the other night at 3:00 in the morning. Had to take out a neighbors brick mailbox to fix the line.

[Achilleslastand]

I keep having dreams that I check the 10-day and there is a break...like, 58 for a high kind of break lol.

A girl can dream...

Hahaha..........I stopped watching the weather weeks ago as i figure its just going to be more of the same.